Stonewall Wasn’t the Start of the Gay Rights Struggle

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The Stonewall uprising of 1969 is often thought of as the beginning of the gay rights movement, but it built on the pioneering work of Frank Kameny

Next weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, when thousands of people poured into the streets of Greenwich Village in New York City to protest a police raid on a gay bar. State harassment of gay people had been commonplace for decades, but that night, the patrons at the Stonewall Inn had had enough—and finally decided to fight back.

Stonewall has long been credited as the event that sparked the modern gay rights movement. But while the riots that ensued over three days and nights in late June 1969 were...

 

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And over 50s years, has there been any concrete Federal laws that guarantee their protection and equal rights?

Where we have competing interests here. The rights of parents, children, and Society to be devoid of bad behavior.

I remember the WSJ when it was about finance and markets....

Oh oh Don’t use the name Stonewall that’s a Confederate name?, omg no it might haunt you Yankees!!

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